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The previous six-year term, we have already written in these pages, eroded the cultural ecosystem in a deep and serious way. From the institutional perspective, by bringing it to the theater, the Inbal National Theater Coordination went from being a glorious producer of theatrical works to practically becoming a programmer of shows (via call) with box office agreements for adventurous companies that chose, in desperation, faced with such a disadvantageous option.
It is true that this loss of vocation of the Coordination had been occurring for some time but it was with the gray management of Daniel Miranda where it became evident. Entering an Inbal theater today having won the annual call for programming, results, by pure mathematical logic, in a loss. Even with the best box office percentage agreements, the artistic groups end up being the ones that subsidize the ticket for the public and not the institution. And the etcetera could be long, frankly.
A week ago the incredible actress and stage director Haydeé Boetto was appointed as deputy director of Inbal and two days ago the great playwright Luis Mario Moncada was appointed head of the National Theater Coordination. Both great news that allow us to foresee a renewal of the Institute’s public policies regarding performing arts and theater in particular. Both with extensive and incredible artistic careers, they have also stood out in public management, carrying out projects for the benefit of artists and society. Boetto has been an official at Inbal, Cenart and the Hellenic Cultural Center; while Moncada in Inbal, UNAM, Hellenic Cultural Center and Veracruzana University. Faced with a panorama of impoverishment of the country’s cultural agents, recognized by Morena’s own senators, the tasks that our colleagues face with the performing arts sector are great but their capabilities are also great.
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The cherry in the cake
Without a doubt, we will not miss Daniel Miranda’s practices of compromising and not complying, of lying over and over again to the theater community. The icing on the cake was the announcement he made in 2023, before 2,000 theatergoers at the National Theater Show, regarding the return of Teatro Escolar, whose call would go out in February of last year and never happened.
